Can't see BXVI in that. He's not tall enough to carry it off... Talking about bad vestments, did you see Fr Longenecker's post about the female Episcopalian minister who enters bodybuilding competitions. Now that REALLY conjours up images that don't deserve to be in anyone's head.

I'd say its the new bishop of Washington, however that outfit is in a correct liturgical color,so that lets her out. Plus I don't think she'd be caught dead doing something like swinging a thurible, Thats just too christian and traditional and might be seem off putting to the "unchurched".

What is the source on this? It looks like a stage or fashion runway rather than a church. So it could be a seculartist's idea of a joke highlightening the excessive feminizing of the priesthood (which I am not inclined to argue with), and possibly a nod to the widespread secular belief that all priests are secretly homosexual (unitll there is child molestation, which case secularists fall over themselves trying to make homosexuals disappear from the equation entirely).

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